Well that wasn't quite what I meant, I just really like some of his works ^^;
Yeah, The Runaway while fun I guess can be legitimately accused of backtracking. It was sort of a repeat of the conflict that was more eloquently developed in The Chase, when they were still getting to know each other and thus their personalities clashed frequently.
Yeah, The Promise, Part II really did a lot of justice to her character's growth and development. Why doesn't anybody else acknowledge this, I wonder.
Yeah, I'd like to see them just a couple of years older, and I would like to see if Toph has any sort of romance in her near-future. She obviously did if she had Lin, but it needs to be elaborated on eventually.
Chuckles. I knew what you meant for the start, of course.
It also seemed like it was backtracking in regards to Toph's relationship with her parents, although that's admittedly more subtle. In "The Earth King" Toph seemed to be quite happy about seeing her mother again, although rather nervous about it, only for her to suddenly pronounce "I do hate them" in the aforementioned episode. The way I've rationalized all this, is that the fact that "her mother finally understands me!" was suddenly changed into "Crap! My dad sent bounty hunters after me!" would naturally do quite the number on her relationship with her parents, and so she'd naturally have mixed feelings about entering into a foriegn land without them (while said land was under Fire Nation dominion, no less) after this point. Anything that reminds of her parents wouldn't be very comfortable for her pyschologically at this point, and so naturally Katara's heavy-handedness would set her off into a total revolt against all morals and rules restricting her. I'm guessing this is what they were going for, anyways, although they should have played up that angle just a bit more instead introducing a pointless mudfight between her and Katara. (Did. Not. Want.)
No one acknowledges what The Promise Part 2 did for her character growth, because frankly they aren't willing to do what I did for Toph in "The Runaway" for their own favorite characters, out of some misguided sense of entitledment, and so fail to see the good in what Gene Yang wrote. Add to this the fact that people tend to want to see Toph as a static character whose basically just snark and Earthbending, and most will end up seeing what they want to see in the end, be it bad or good. I could explain in detail what The Promise Part 2 did for her character development (as I did in a more recent edit to the comment above; check it out) at the top of my lungs for several days straight, and still they would issue unjustified complaints which show a complete lack of appreciation for what Gene Yang was attempting to do in the comics.
Cool. =)
Asami just really looked incredible in this one. I definitely am beginning to think she is my favorite character from ALOK. Not to knock Korra, though. She's still cool for the most part.
Wait, she actually said aloud that she did hate them? God, my memory's lousy.
LOL, the mudfight did not entertain?
Yeah, I guess it could've been played up more strongly, the angle on her avoiding any of her old parental influence and memories, with Katara being a constant reminder of them with her own motherly persona. That bounty hunter thing certainly would not help her relationship with her parents, no. Toph's parents clearly don't know how harmful their methods have been.
No they don't. The haters just keep painting the comics like they suck so bad that there's nothing redeemable in them. I admit, they're not as strong as the show proper, but there are at least a few good points worth acknowledging, and I for one was greatly moved by Toph's story in Part II. But yeah, the fans just don't appreciate what they did give, instead of focusing mostly on their flaws. Again, I acknowledge that they do have serious narrative issues, but I don't think they're crippling. And frankly their is some excellent character development to be found here and there.
Nothing it seems, still home and alive and well last we saw them. We haven't seen them since Toph ran away.
The wikia SDCC 2014 interview with the creators confirms that there are plans to continue the comics beyond The Rift.
Nothing else was said on the matter.
there's a comic about zuko's story before atla
there's also a story about the promise and also the search for zuko's mom
next is the rift
there's also the comic called the lost adventures/ the lost scrolls
and there's also the comic about what happened to mai after her breakup with zuko, entitled "rebound"
Yes, even in 2019